Hi Sven,

Thanks for the reply which is pretty bad news. Many many countries
use DD/MM/YYYY as standard and I find it incredible that this is not
a valid format.

Leslie.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Svein Erling"
<svein.erling.tysvaer@k...> wrote:

> Hi Leslie!
>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "cdb4w"
> <lwm317_ebayaccount@b...> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How do I tell firebird to interpret dates in DD/MM/YYYY format
> > rather than MM/DD/YYYY when executing SQL statements.
>
> You simply don't. Firebird accepts four formats (at least that I

know

> of), MM/DD/YYYY, DD.MM.YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD and DD-mmm-YYYY (the last

one